SCHIPPERARQUES

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Summer 2011 Schipper/Arques ss2011 is about the volume of light, about a girl running away from the restrictive environment in her family at the night of her debutante ball, ending up feeling liberated but overwhelmed and frightened out in a city at night filled with fog. As dawn breaks, sunlight is captured by the mist, slowly revealing the bright summer colors of morning daylight. The collection visually guides us through the story, starting with 21st century chastity belts with distressed embroidery in an effort to ban all light from life in a fetish caricature of upper class conservatism and the need felt to hide the true self. The escape, feeling insecure and lost at first, hazy colors and hints of light to later be followed by the discovery of freedom, color and light, translated in contemporary unrestrictive cuts and vivid colors.

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Boris is based in Antwerp / Hasselt, Belgium. He studied at Gerrit Rietveld academy Amsterdam. His collections are produced in Belgium.

Schipper/Arques is about celebrating shape and texture in a collection with strong contrasts between structure and fluidity,
combining underground influences with couture finishing techniques.
With attention to detail, a sophisticated collection both fragile and masculine pictures a world of romantic minimalism and laid back elegance against a backdrop of refined but militarized fetishism.
A passion for cut and construction form the foundation for every collection, supplemented by deliberately unpretentious but intricate pieces to balance the look.
Boris Schipper and Tomas Pedrosa Arques started working together in 1998 under the name Art of Vanity, first as stylists for clubs, music videos and fashion, but later evolving to attending high level private clients from New York to Monaco with
their designs.
To make a clear distinction from their work for Art of Vanity the Schipper/Arques label was started in Belgium as a prêt à
porter label in 2008, showing in Paris during fashion week in October 2008 for the first time.